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Definition: Agonist |
AgonistNoun1. A muscle that contracts while another relaxes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Agonist \Ag"o*nist\, noun. [from Greek]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | In anatomy, a prime mover. In pharmacology, a drug that has affinity for and stimulates physiologic activity at cell receptors normally stimulated by naturally occurring substances. (references) |
Medicine | 2)any muscle yielding the desired movement. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This type of drug is called a dopamine agonist. (references) | |
Bromocriptine is the only dopamine agonist approved for the treatment of infertility. (references) | ||
The use of a GnRH agonist lowers blood levels of estrogen and reduces uterine volume by as much as 60 percent. (references) | ||
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| "Agonist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Agonist" is used about 53 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 53 | 46,657 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "agonist": dopamine agonist ♦ luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonist. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "agonist": agonist-induced. | |
Ending with "agonist": beta-agonist, camp-agonist. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
agonist | 59 |
agonist beta | 9 |
dopamine agonist | 9 |
agonist alpha | 6 |
gnrh agonist | 4 |
agonist melatonin receptors | 4 |
agonist opiate | 3 |
agonist gaba | 2 |
agonist definition | 2 |
beta 2 agonist | 2 |
agonist antagonist muscle | 2 |
agonist drug | 2 |
agonist antagonist | 2 |
agonist dopamine receptor | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "agonist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 苦闷者. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | agonist. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | agonist. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | agoniste (a. et n.), agoniste. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Agonist. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανταγωνιστής μυς (antagonistic muscle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | agonista. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 競技者 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きょうぎしゃ (athlete, contestant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | agonistay agonista. (various references) agonista. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "agonist": agonistes, agonistic, agonistically, agonists. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "agonist": antagonist, deuteragonist, protagonist. (additional references) | |
Words containing "agonist": antagonistic, antagonistically, antagonists, deuteragonists, nonantagonistic, protagonists. (additional references) | |
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"Agonist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aganist, agaonids, Agariste, aginast, agonism, agoniste, agonite, agoniz, agons, agorist, agotist, angoist, angonist, aounist, aronist, batonist. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "agonist" (pronounced a"gunust) |
| 7 | a" g u n u s t | antagonist, protagonist. |
| 6 | -g u n u s t | organist. |
| 5 | -u n u s t | abolitionist, abortionist, accompanist, anticommunist, arsonist, botanist, chauvinist, colonist, communist, conservationist, contortionist, determinist, exhibitionist, expressionist, feminist, illusionist, impressionist, interventionist, isolationist, misogynist, nutritionist, obstructionist, preservationist, protectionist, receptionist, reservationist, revolutionist, secessionist, segregationist, unionist. |
| 4 | -n u s t | balloonist, cartoonist, cleanest, columnist, dishonest, earnest, finest, funnest, greenest, gymnast, harnessed, honest, hygienist, internist, keenest, leanest, machinist, meanest, modernist, noncommunist, opportunist, pianist, soonest, sternest, tannest, thinnest, violinist, witnessed. |
| 3 | -u s t | ablest, absolutist, activist, agriculturalist, agronomist, alarmist, alchemist, allergist, amethyst, amorist, analyst, anarchist, anatomist, anesthesiologist, anesthetist, angriest, animist, anthropologist, apologist, apprenticed, aquarist, archaeologist, archivist, artist, atheist, August, ballast, barest, behaviorist, biased, bicyclist, biggest, biochemist, biologist, bitterest, blackest, bleakest, bloodiest, bluest, bluntest, boldest, bravest, breakfast, briefest, brightest, broadest, busiest, buttressed, calloused, canoeist, canvassed, capitalist, cardiologist, caricaturist, catalyst, cellist, cheapest, choicest, clarinetist, classicist, closest, coldest, colonialist, conversationalist, coolest, cornettist, craziest, creamiest, criminologist, cruelest, cultist, cyclist, darkest, deadliest, dearest, deepest, deforest, deist, densest, dentist, dermatologist, direst, dirtiest, disinterest, driest, druggist, dullest, dumbest, earliest, easiest, ecologist, economist, editorialist, eldest, elitist, embarrassed, empiricist, encompassed, encyclopedist, endocrinologist, entomologist, environmentalist, epidemiologist, ethicist, ethnomusicologist, exorcist, extremist, faintest, fairest, fanciest, farthest, fascist, fastest, fattest, federalist, fetishist, fewest, fiercest, finalist, firmest, fittest, flimsiest, florist, focused, focussed, foggiest, fondest, forest, formalist, freest, freshest, friendliest, fullest, fundamentalist, funniest, furthest, generalist, geneticist, gentlest, geologist, gerontologist, goldest, grandest, gravest, grayest, greatest, greediest, grimaced, grimmest, grooviest, guitarist, gynecologist, happiest, hardest, harshest, harvest, healthiest, heaviest, heftiest, herbalist, highest, hippest, hobbyist, holiest, hottest, hugest, humblest, humorist, idealist, ideologist, immunologist, imperialist, individualist, industrialist, institutionalist, instrumentalist, interest, internationalist, jaundiced, journalist, juiciest, junkiest, kindest, kremlinologist, largest, latest, laziest, leftist, librettist, lightest, likeliest, linguist, littlest, liveliest, lobbyist, locust, longest, loudest, lowest, loyalist, luckiest, lyricist, manicurist, mannerist, masochist, materialist, medalist, mercantilist, merest, meteorologist, methodist, microbiologist, mightiest, mildest, mineralogist, modest, monopolist, motorcyclist, motorist, musicologist, narrowest, nastiest, nationalist, naturalist, nearest, neatest, neediest, neurologist, neuroscientist, neutralist, newest, noblest, noisiest, nonconformist, noninterest, noticed, novelist, oboist, oddest, oldest, oncologist, ophthalmologist, orthodontist, orthopedist, pacifist, paleontologist, palest, panelist, pathologist, pessimist, pharmacist, philanthropist, photojournalist, physiologist, polemicist, poorest, populist, prefaced, prejudiced, premised, prettiest, priciest, promised, propagandist, proudest, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychologist, psychotherapist, purchased, purest, quickest, quietest, quietist, racist, radiologist, rainforest, rainiest, rapist, rarest, reddest, refocused, reforest, remotest, repurchased, reservist, resurfaced, rheumatologist, richest, rightist, riskiest, ritziest, roughest, rudest, saddest, sadist, safest, satirist, savviest, scariest, scientist, secularist, seismologist, semifinalist, separatist, serologist, serviced, severest, sexiest, shakiest, sharpest, shortest, showiest, shrewdest, sickest, silliest, simplest, skimpiest, skinniest, sleekest, slickest, slightest, slimmest, sloppiest, slowest, smallest, smartest, smoggiest, smoothest, socialist, sociologist, softest, soundest, specialist, spiritualist, stablest, staunchest, steepest, stickiest, stiffest, stormiest, strangest, strategist, strictest, strongest, stupidest, supremacist, surest, surfaced, survivalist, sweetest, swiftest, tallest, technologist, televangelist, tempest, terraced, theorist, therapist, thickest, thorniest, tightest, tiniest, toniest, toughest, tourist, toxicologist, traditionalist, trendiest, trickiest, truest, ugliest, ultranationalist, unbiased, unfocused, unkindest, unnoticed, urologist, violist, virologist, vocalist, warmest, weakest, wealthiest, weirdest, wettest, whitest, widest, wildest, wisest, worthiest, yellowest, youngest, zaniest, zoologist. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gitanos. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: gainst, giants, gitano, ingots, sating, stingo, tangos, tigons, tongas. | |
-2 letters: agios, agist, agons, angst, antis, gains, gaits, giant, gnats, goats, gonia, ingot, iotas, ostia, saint, santo, satin, staig, stain, stang, sting, stoai, tains, tango, tangs, tigon, tings, togas, tonga, tongs. | |
-3 letters: agin, agio, agon, ains, aits, anis, anti, ants, gain, gait, gast, gats, gins, gist, gits, gnat, goas, goat, into, ions, iota, nags, naoi, naos, nits, nogs, nota, oast, oats, sago, sain, sang, sati, sign, sing, snag, snit, snog, snot, song, stag, stoa, tags, tain, tang, tans, taos, ting, tins, toga, togs, tong, tons. | |
-4 letters: ago, ain, ais, ait, ani, ant, gan, gas, gat, gin, git, goa, gos, got, ins, ion, its, nag, nit, nog, nos, not, oat, ons, sag, sat, sin, sit, son, sot, tag, tan, tao, tas, tin, tis, tog, ton. | |
-5 letters: ag, ai, an, as, at, go, in, is, it, na, no, on, os, si, so, ta, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: agnostic, agonists, antilogs, antismog, boasting, boatings, coasting, coatings, gigatons, goatskin, organist, outgains, roasting, solating, toasting. | |
+2 letters: accosting, agnations, agnostics, agonistes, agonistic, analogist, assorting, astonying, atomising, azotising, coastings, fagotings, gelations, gestation, gnathions, goatskins, gravitons, gustation, gyrations, intaglios, isolating, legations, ligations, loathings, negations, nostalgia, nostalgic, orangiest, organists, outasking, pastoring, rigatonis, rogations, signatory, solvating. | |
+3 letters: abiogenist, agitations, agronomist, amortising, analogists, antagonism, antagonist, antilogies, aragonites, astounding, autogenies, autolysing, autopsying, autosexing, botanising, cognations, contagions, contagious, costarring, designator, desolating, diagnostic, faggotings, gelatinous, gemmations, gestations, gradations, gustations, guttations, incognitas, indagators, insolating, instigator, isoantigen, langostino, migrations, misatoning, monogamist, morganites, navigators, negotiants, negotiates, nostalgias, nostalgics, nostalgist, organicist, originates, osculating, outfasting, outgassing, outlasting, outpassing, outraising, outsailing, outshaming, outskating, outsoaring, outstaring, outstating, outstaying, outtasking, outwasting, postdating, postmating, purgations, resonating, sabotaging, sonicating, spoliating, stagnation, stationing, stockading, stomaching, tailorings, totalising, vagotonias. | |
+4 letters: abiogenists, abnegations, abrogations, accountings, accustoming, afforesting, agnosticism, agronomists, allegations, anatomising, ancestoring, angiomatous, angioplasty, angiotensin, angulations, antagonisms, antagonists, antagonizes, anthologies, anthologist, antismoking, arrogations, assignation, associating, astonishing, authorising, cartoonings, castigation, coassisting, coattesting, cogitations, contrasting, coruscating, cosignatory, degustation, delegations, denegations, denigrators, derogations, designation, designators, designatory, diagnostics, dislocating, divagations, elongations, emigrations, ergotamines, figurations, forecasting, foretasting, fumigations, fustigation, gadolinites, gastronomic, geminations, genealogist, generations, geobotanies, geobotanist, gestational, glaciations, glauconites, gleizations, graduations, grandiosity, iceboatings, indagations, instigation, instigators, integrators, invigorates, irrigations, isoantigens, isografting, jargonistic, juxtaposing, langostinos, langoustine, legislation, levigations, ligamentous, litigations, logistician, mislocating, mitigations, monogamists, monogastric, nasogastric, navigations, negotiators, nitrogenase, nonmigrants, nostalgists, obfuscating, obligations, organicists, originators, oscillating, ostracising, ostracizing, outbargains, outboasting, outclassing, outfeasting, outsavoring, outsmarting, outspanning, outspeaking, outstanding, outstarting, outswearing, overcasting, oversalting, overstating, overstaying, overtasking, paginations, patronising, personating, postlanding, postmarking, postulating, postweaning, prognathism, prostrating, protagonist, reassorting, regionalist, regulations, relegations, resignation, sailboating, sanctioning, segregation, showboating, signatories, soothsaying, sporulating, stagflation, stagnations, stocktaking, subjugation, subrogating, subrogation, subtotaling, suffocating, sulfonating, surrogating, syncopating, theologians, tobogganist, toolmakings, transposing, vegetations, wainscoting. | |
+5 letters: absolutizing, aggradations, aggravations, aggregations, agnosticisms, alloantigens, amblygonites, anastomosing, angelologist, angiotensins, antagonistic, anthologists, anthologizes, antiestrogen, apostatising, apostatizing, assignations, astoundingly, backstopping, barnstorming, bastinadoing, broadcasting, castigations, categorising, centimorgans, coagulations, colligations, compensating, confiscating, congelations, conjugations, consecrating, consignation, consociating, constipating, constraining, consummating, contagiously, corrugations, degradations, degustations, denigrations, designations, desolatingly, diagnostical, dissociating, earthmovings, evaginations, expurgations, forestalling, fulgurations, fustigations, gasification, gastrocnemii, gastronomies, gastronomist, gastrulation, gelatinously, genealogists, geobotanists, geomagnetism, germinations, glutathiones, goaltendings, granulations, gratulations, gravitations, gynecomastia, haptoglobins, homesteading, ignorantness, imaginations, immigrations, impregnators, inaugurators, indignations, inosculating, instigations, integrations, interrobangs, interrogates, investigator, invigilators, invigorators, isoantigenic, langoustines, legislations, logisticians, longstanding, manifestoing, marathonings, marginations, mineralogist, negotiations, nematologies, nematologist, nitrogenases, nonstrategic, objurgations, oceanologist, organicities, organisation, originations, outorganizes, outsparkling, outspreading, overcastings, overstaffing, oxygenations, palynologist, pathogenesis, photostating, prognathisms, propagandist, propagations, prorogations, protagonists, regionalists, registration, remigrations, renegotiates, resignations, roughcasting, sailboatings, scapegoating, segmentation, segregations, seronegative, snapshotting, soothsayings, speedboating, stagflations, starboarding, steamrolling, stenographic, stocktakings, stonewalling, subjugations, subrogations, subtotalling, sugarcoating, thingamabobs, tobogganings, tobogganists, transforming, transmogrify, transporting, trapshooting, urbanologist, variegations, volatilising, wainscotings, wainscotting, witenagemots. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 67 6F 6E 69 73 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- --. --- -. .. ... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100111 01101111 01101110 01101001 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A g o n i s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0067 006F 006E 0069 0073 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35738180758586 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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